Motivational Quotes

Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

11.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John